Thought Provoking ?

Rating: Null/10 (27 May 2003)

I have just watched this film with my Fiancee and yes, she hated it, saying it was daft, but I thought it was very thought provoking and a 'clever' film, with more than just zombies to worry about.... I won't mention all the good or bad things in the film as I believe they have been covered already but what disturbed me, was the scene with the soldier chained to the radiator talking to Jim about the UK under quarantine ..... then when Jim looks up at the sky and see the high altitude aircraft, is there life outside the British Isles ????? Has the UK been 'quarantined', is this the REAL sub-plot of the film ? Would the United Nations(?) seal off a country without aid and let its population die if this scenario really happened ?

BUT, at the beginning, Naomi talks about outbreaks in Paris and New York, were these isolated cases or was the US and France sealed off too ? Unfortunately then the media 'died' so no one knows what happened.
These are scary thoughts and still trouble me now as no 'civilian' really knows what goes on in animal testing labs or military establishments.

Is this the message the production team wanted to get across ?
So, we come the end .... who's colours were on that aircraft, it was a Hawker Hunter an older British aircraft, but I didn't recognise the ensign, someone here mentioned Finnish, but the pilot was speaking English (I think), also that type of aircraft would not have the range to get from Finland to the UK... Do the Finnish military have air-refueling capabilities ????
These are troublesome days indeed.......